WELL, I finally stopped dragging my feet and made something with that fabric. A button down--the business woman's best friend.

Check out me, not a model, posing in front of a compost pile and some sexy tropical plants.
Shout out to Aleks for composting this fabric for me and Anne for snapping some great photos.

The scarf I am wearing is dyed with dried yarrow plants and an iron blanket.

Not the same pile of compost that was used to age the fabric; but you get the idea of the size and how odd thismedium is for creating art!

Here are a number of detail shots of my blouse. Because the fabric is a loose weave and was aged in a pile of compost that usually hangs around 140 degrees teeming with friendly microbes and bacteria--the fabric got a little chewed up. Most of the holes were not noticeable until I held the finished shirt up to the light; I'm sure you can imagine how surprised I was! So I experimented with boro-mending and added to the patterned intricacies that already existed.

The green fabric is dyed with marigolds followed up with a quick iron dip. I love the army-green color and plan to make a simple button-down and shorts combo--maybe a jumper. In this photo the underside of the collar, nap, and back compliment one another so well. The collar is very stiff so I expect to pop it fairly often to show off the pattern.

A couple of notes about the patterns:

Soft copper/red imprints are redbud leaves

Angular spotted brown imprints are maple leaves

Brown streaks are drips of iron or folds that microbs took up residence